Cross-discipline evidence principles for sustainability policy

Edward T Game; Heather Tallis; Lydia Olander; Steven M Alexander; Jonah Busch; Nancy Cartwright; Elizabeth L Kalies; Yuta J Masuda; Anne-Christine Mupepele; Jiangxiao Qiu; Andrew Rooney; Erin Sills; William J Sutherland

doi:10.1038/s41893-018-0141-x

Cross-discipline evidence principles for sustainability policy

Nat Sustain. 2018 Sep;1(9):452-454. doi: 10.1038/s41893-018-0141-x. Epub 2018 Sep 14.

Authors

Edward T Game^{1

2}, Heather Tallis³, Lydia Olander⁴, Steven M Alexander^{5

6

7}, Jonah Busch⁸, Nancy Cartwright^{9

10}, Elizabeth L Kalies¹¹, Yuta J Masuda¹², Anne-Christine Mupepele^{13

14}, Jiangxiao Qiu¹⁵, Andrew Rooney¹⁶, Erin Sills¹⁷, William J Sutherland¹⁸

Affiliations

¹ The Nature Conservancy, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
² University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia.
³ The Nature Conservancy, Santa Cruz, CA, USA.
⁴ Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
⁵ National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, University of Maryland, Annapolis, MD, USA.
⁶ Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁷ Environmental Change and Governance Group, Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada.
⁸ Center for Global Development, Washington DC, USA.
⁹ Philosophy Department, Durham University, Durham DH1 3HN, UK.
¹⁰ University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
¹¹ The Nature Conservancy, Durham, NC, USA.
¹² The Nature Conservancy, Seattle, WA, USA.
¹³ Department of Biometry and Environmental System Analysis, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
¹⁴ Nature Conservation and Landscape Ecology, University of Freiburg, Tennenbacher Str. 4, 79106 Freiburg, Germany.
¹⁵ School of Forest Resources and Conservation, Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Florida, FL, USA.
¹⁶ Division of the National Toxicology Program, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA.
¹⁷ Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, NC State University, Raleigh, NC, USA.
¹⁸ Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

Abstract

Evidence-based approaches to sustainability challenges must draw on knowledge from the environment, development and health communities. To be practicable, this requires an approach to evidence that is broader and less hierarchical than the standards often applied within disciplines.

Grants and funding

ZIA ES103317-03/ImNIH/Intramural NIH HHS/United States